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Israel enter it, so I don't see why not.

The only protest that will make any difference is a full boycott. No match attendance, no ticket sales, no shirt sales, no merchandise shifting in any way. This will attack the pocket of the owner to an even greater degree than the club already does and potentially makes the club even more poisonous as a brand for wider commercial revenue avenues in the long run. This does have a few downsides though. Firstly, if the club is haemorrhagging cash more than it already does, the cutbacks are going to become truly awful before anything gets better, which could be catastrophic. Secondly, if/when Lerner's hand is forced, you exponentially increase the risk of us being sold to anyone with the cash that makes it worthwhile Lerner selling, meaning the club could end up being sold to the next Venkys or that chancer in Blackpool. Moreover, you have the issue of the clubs brand being potentially rancid at that point, making a turn around more difficult in terms of making money, and again you question the kind of person prepared to purchase a severely distressed enterprise in a market that rarely really makes much money in real terms for owners. The current protest, admirable as it is, is just a gesture that shows anger from the fan base. It might put some pressure on Lerner, that outweighs the pressure of his bank account, maybe, to either change his tack or sell more readily. I'd say the odds are against that, especially as his most recent moves have been designed to further remove himself from the club and also to instill a cost saving regime. It's most successful in being a vent for displeasure and a flag to the wider game the fans aren't happy, IMO, and I won't criticise it for that. The bank account wins this fight IMO. Either we wait until someone pays the money Lerner wants, whatever that is, and hope they're good eggs with deep pockets, or the long game, potentially suicidal, to force a sale by reducing revenue further and forcing the market value to drop and encouraging a sale. A full boycott is impossible of course though.

Edge of Tomorrow is great. In large part because Emily Blunt is fantastic in it. And also because She may be perfect.

Absolutely nailed on.

It'll go that way eventually, everything will, but I think we're a couple of generations from that yet. The infrastructure isn't there, and people aren't ready to go full digital purchase on everything. The next gen of consoles will nudge it further, and so on, and eventually you'll have the full about face in mindset from the consumer that makes it inevitable. The next Nintendo console is a decent bet for a full digital console experiment.

In fairness that's probably about my annual spend on Amazon in comics films and music, seems a bargain.

Of course Paddy Reilly was 'heavily involved' in recruitment. It's his job. Apparently he's pretty well respected in the field too.

I'm deeply unsure how Microsoft plan to take the millions of Xbox Ones they've already produced, and upgrade the hardware on them. I'd go so far as to say they can't. They'd need to produce a new edition of the console that was closer to a PC that let consumers easily upgrade their console. Which immediately and fundamentally splits the user base over night. And causes issues with developers, because no matter how much they witter on about making games more scalable for console audiences, you're immediately asking the developer to do more work and make a call about exactly where their sweet spot is for performance - do you just settle for the big user base who doesn't give a shit about upgrades, and therefore make the benefits of upgrading fit the game rather fringe, or do you openly admit that the standard user base gets a weaker product? They can only really do this with a new console, unless they're keen to shoot themselves in the foot. Again.

That spoiler is also revealed by some other toy lines so best avoid anything Civil War if don't want one of the movie's big moments spoiled.

I've had a number of people say over the years they think I might suffer from some sort of depression, and I'm convinced myself I suffer with something approaching anxiety, but I've never gone to a GP about it and never will. There's something that just makes me not want to broach that subject and whenever it becomes a problem just deal with it myself and get on with things. Saying that, recently I've had a few times where I can feel things just start to get on top of me and getting the feeling that my grip is tumbing away and that's been the hardest I can remember things beingwhere I've had to fight to keep a lid on it all. But still I'll just assure myself there's nothing wrong and I'm over thinking things and crack on.

Right. He's appointed 2. 1 I wouldn't have touched with a bargepole but arguably just about succeeded last season and was given the opportunity to carry on this year where the wheels fell off. I'll let Fox have that. And then we all know the story with Garde. I think he could potentially be successful for us but so far he's had the deck stacked heavily against him. The transfer policy... Shrug. Our best players this year have been the result of that policy. Equally it didn't plug holes we clearly had and the team as a whole hasn't, for whatever reason, worked out (largely because we're incredibly brittle, and can't score). I dunno. I dunno what he does all day. His background is commercial deals. Apparently he's been doing a lot of that as we're a mess in that respect. But I dunno.

I genuinely couldn't tell you what he does all day. I'm surprised so many people know.

It's his club. He could bulldoze the Holte tomorrow and nobody could stop him. So no, there's no way to remove him. The only thing that can is if someone offers him enough money for it that he's happy to flog it. I'm somewhat concerned that when that eventually happens, it's going to the first bidder to offer what he wants, and with no thought to who they are or their intentions.

I don't think, really, there was ever any real hope of making a difference. It's just a gesture. Making it clear, for some people, that they aren't happy. Little else.

He'll walk in the summer. He'll see out the season.

The amount of pisstaking of the 74 gesture is getting silly. Every outlet that's run anything about it is doing some riff on 'there'll be no-one left to leave by then'.

Out the Door on 4?

Yep, decided not to extend my contract so out on my ear. To say I'm angry would be an exceptional understatement. I'm giving myself a day I think to just walk away from it and then see what I want to do. My experience is all in 1 field but I'm not sure if I want to carry on doing this. But equally I don't really know what else I want to do.

I think you've benefited from playing a patched up version of the game from the get go, which is testament to the work CDPR have done post release. I was having the game patch as I went and ran into a lot of bugs. I was unable to clear a basic mission in the first 2 hours of the game as the scripting broke, the Fools Gold mission was broken until a patch months later, I also had the Skellige's Most Wanted glitch VO1 mentions, which was never fixed and appears to hit randomly. And that's just the major ones I remember off the top of my head. It was/ is a very buggy game, particularly to start with, and I hit a fair few. But, despite that, I still adore the game and think it's up there with the best.

Mad Max is one of the best action films of recent years.

Frank Kelly's gone. Feck.

I can't recall a single time, even when we were magnitudes less shit than we are now, when I've enjoyed watching a fixture against Stoke, and I doubt that will change today.

It's 20 years in Japan in fairness. In the UK the games are not quite 17 years old.

The daft thing with the airport spoiler is they only decided it was a spoiler in December, and previously told merchandisers and particularly toy manufacturers they didn't need to keep it under their hat, so the cat was never in the bag and now they're trying to put it in. I can understand why they think is s spoiler, it potentially ruins a great moment, but it's basically Marvel dropping the ball. They decided Spiderman's costume is a bigger spoiler than anything else in the film bizarrely.

True... One of the obvious choices was local guy Scott Adkins, who is a good martial artist and also can act. Unfortunately he's probably just slightly too old, and he's been cast in Dr Strange anyway. Hopefully Loras can do the part proud. I've got a soft spot for the character which has me hoping they follow the Brubaker/Aja style from the Immortal story arc... It's actually caused a slightly bizarre critical reaction on some forums which is amusing. Marvel have been criticised for a while for being a bit too white bloke centric in their characters, which is why they've been pushing some of the more diverse characters they have recently. There was a sudden opinion that Iron Fist, a strange 70s character born out of the Bruce Lee boom, was an obvious cover to tweak a little and make the character an East Asian American, because the character isn't really defined by his background at all and there was an uneasy feeling that having a blond white guy being a martial arts master was a bit racist. But then they've cast a white guy so there's been a backlash. Which is amusing because the whole backlash arises from people wanting to have a character that was even more racially stereotyped by making the character Chinese American or the like.